. How to judge architecture : a popular guide to the appreciation of buildings. -ternal marks of commercial intercourse withEurope. The interior is indeed the chiefthing in church building, anywhere, but inthe Byzantine art it is everything, or so thestudent thinks. Plate XXIII shows theinterior of the great church of Santa Sophia,at Constantinople, which seems to manythe noblest architectural conception of theChristian world in any of its parts. PlateXXIV gives the exterior of the same build-ing : and it will be seen at once how muchthere needs to be taken from it that its trueByzantine chara
. How to judge architecture : a popular guide to the appreciation of buildings. -ternal marks of commercial intercourse withEurope. The interior is indeed the chiefthing in church building, anywhere, but inthe Byzantine art it is everything, or so thestudent thinks. Plate XXIII shows theinterior of the great church of Santa Sophia,at Constantinople, which seems to manythe noblest architectural conception of theChristian world in any of its parts. PlateXXIV gives the exterior of the same build-ing : and it will be seen at once how muchthere needs to be taken from it that its trueByzantine character may be judged. Thetall round minarets are modern Turkishadditions, put there for the muezzin whocalls to prayer, the enormous buttresses,looking like lofty houses without windows,which rise one on either side of the greatarch in the flank of the church, are addi-tions resulting partly from the fall of theoriginal cupola in the sixth century andpartly from much later reparations ; andall the small cupolas near, with the build-ings which they cover, are wholly modern,[88].
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